Henry Lawson's Best Stories

Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Fair. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 273 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust jacket is intact but has some small open tears and several closed tears and is rubbed here and there. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Front endpaper has been removed. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Henry Lawson (1867 ?1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer". A vocal nationalist and republican, Lawson regularly contributed to The Bulletin, and many of his works helped popularise the Australian vernacular in fiction. He wrote prolifically into the 1890s, after which his output declined, in part due to struggles with alcoholism and mental illness. At times destitute, he spent periods in Darlinghurst Gaol and psychiatric institutions. After he died in 1922 following a cerebral haemorrhage, Lawson became the first Australian writer to be granted a state funeral. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Australia; 19th century; Australiana. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9099. .